Pumpkin Chip Cupcakes with Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting are topped with toasted coconut and are a super simple dessert to make this Fall!
Pumpkin Chip Cupcakes with Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting are the perfect way to welcome in that gorgeous fall weather!
How is it already September!? You guys, I hate to sound like I’m 89 years old, but time sure does fly as you get older.
I have been chomping at the bit to make some pumpkin recipes, and these cupcakes had to happen first this year. I actually made and published this recipe back in 2010, but the photos were horrendous and just didn’t do the cupcakes justice.
Tell me you don’t want to just dive into that moist and delicious pumpkin cupcake…
So I have to tell you the funniest story. Yesterday was Labor Day and I took a drive up to the nearby mountains with my daughters and we went mountain biking. Well, right before we left, I told my oldest (she’s almost 13 guys!) to go ahead on the trail and cruise down the mountain and I would pick her up at the bottom.
She didn’t want to go.
There were rain clouds creeping in and she kept saying that she thought it looked like rain, but I convinced her to go anyway.
I packed up my younger two girls and we drove down to the bottom of the trail where we waited for her. All of a sudden it started pouring rain.
Like, a LOT of rain.
Ten minutes later my daughter emerges from the trees… covered in mud and not looking so happy.
I must be the worst mom ever because I was laughing so hard. So. Hard.
She didn’t see the humor in it, but I gave her a hug and told her I was sorry. On the way home I bought her a slice of pie. That sorta made up for it.
You know what else would have made things better? These cupcakes.
Please, for the love of all things delicious, make these cupcakes and frosting… that frosting is my fave!
Oh and don’t send your kids down the mountain during a storm… life lessons.
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Pumpkin Chip CupCakes with Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
For the Cupcakes:
- 1 boxed yellow cake mix
- 1 cup water
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/3 cup dark brown sugar
- 1 1/4 tsp pumpkin pie spice*
- 1 cup mini chocolate chips
For the Frosting:
- 8 oz cream cheese; softened
- 1/2 cup butter; softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 tsp pumpkin pie spice*
- 1/2 cup toasted coconut**
Instructions
For the Cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl combing cake mix, water, oil, eggs, pumpkin, brown sugar, and pumpkin pie spice. Beat with a mixer for 30 seconds on low, then 2 more minutes on high speed. Fold in chocolate chips. Line cupcake pan with paper liners and fill each cup 2/3 of the way. Bake for 20-22 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool.
For the Frosting:
- In a mixing bowl combine cream cheese, vanilla, pumpkin pie spice, and butter. Beat with a mixer until smooth and fluffy. While mixing add 1 cup of powdered sugar at a time until combined.
- Frost cupcakes with the frosting, and sprinkle with a little toasted coconut on top. Enjoy!
Notes
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Originally published on 10/27/2010. Updated on 9/5/2017
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yum want to eat! do you want to work out 5:30 am in countryside with petra or is that too early and too far?
These are delicious. I added a cup of chopped pecans to the cupcakes and used my own cream cheese icing recipe (and didn't use spices in the icing). Toasted coconut was the perfect finishing touch to these moist cupcakes! Thank you!
I just made these Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins yesterday and let me tell you they are the best I've ever had! My family snapped on them!!!! OMW!!!! I'm so happy I found this recipe , I was looking for something different AND this was it !
Wow! These cupcakes really look so delicious! I love it. This is something that I should give a try. Thanks a lot for sharing.
You're making these for thanksgiving too, right? ;D
Shawn…these look awesome. I think I am going to whip some up for the ward party! We miss you guys! I hope all is well and you are lovin the trailer life. Who wouldn't especially when you are doing it with such a cute little group : )
Ali- We don't know when we'll be back 🙁 There is no set time when we will be done here, and no jobs lined up anywhere else as of now. But I will keep you informed when we find out something new!
Looks Y-U-M!
Yum!
Thanks for the blog nomination! I have not ignored it… Just put it into my blog list 🙂 thank you!! When will you guys be back?